GOP: The New Nero, Fiddling While the Middle Class Burns.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

The middle class is in a state of crisis. “Huge tax giveaways to corporations and the wealthy, near catastrophic deregulation of all aspects of our economic system, and free trade practices that have seriously damaged the country,” are crushing the middle class. If we don’t reverse these policies soon, there might be no middle class left.

Don’t bank on Congress working to help solve the problems that are hurting the middle class. They won’t even take action to avert the upcoming sequester. Turns out the House GOP will do just about anything (including putting our service members and other middle class families on the chopping block) to save their rich buddies from losing their precious tax loopholes.

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The great American middle class wasn’t something that just happened – it was built brick by brick. It was built by soldiers returning from war and a government that repaid them by giving them a shot at college.

What the wealthy and well-connected figured out is that they have strength in numbers: the numbers of dollars they contribute to politicians. It’s time working and middle class Americans use our strength in numbers to reclaim the American Dream. We need a counterweight to the power of big money – and that’s the power of big numbers, the power of ordinary people who work for a living demanding to have our voices heard – from the workplace to Washington.